03866nam 22006375 450 991059008110332120230810175415.09783031067495(electronic bk.)978303106748810.1007/978-3-031-06749-5(MiAaPQ)EBC7077201(Au-PeEL)EBL7077201(CKB)24739001000041(DE-He213)978-3-031-06749-5(EXLCZ)992473900100004120220823d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty Paper Navigators /by Erika Behrisch1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (229 pages)Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime HistoryPrint version: Behrisch, Erika Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031067488 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1: Introduction: Triangulating the New: Discovery, Innovation, Bureaucracy -- Chapter 2: “A monotonous and arduous service”: Science, Surveying, and Servitude Aboard -- Chapter 3: "Considerable Magnetic Disturbance”: The Niger Expedition, Science, and Networks of Influence -- Chapter 4: En Route with the British Admiralty’s Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849) -- Chapter 5: Private Inventions, Public Purse: Innovation and the Admiralty -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Notes in the Margin.This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiralty’s engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiralty’s private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century. Erika Behrisch is Professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada.Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime HistoryGreat BritainHistoryMilitary historyScienceHistoryCivilizationHistoryHistory of Britain and IrelandMilitary HistoryHistory of ScienceCultural HistoryGreat BritainHistory.Military history.ScienceHistory.CivilizationHistory.History of Britain and Ireland.Military History.History of Science.Cultural History.359.03094109034359.00941Behrisch Erika1254336MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910590081103321Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty2908366UNINA